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The prettiest flowers in the world include rare camellias, expensive roses, common daffodils, elusive orchids, fragrant lilacs, and an exquisite sacred lotus.
Lobularia maritima is an annual plant (rarely a short-lived perennial plant) [3] growing to 5–30 cm (2–12 in) tall by 20–30 cm (8–12 in) broad. The stem is very branched, with dense clusters of small flowers. The leaves are 1–4 cm long and 3–5 mm, broad, alternate, sessile, quite hairy, oval to lanceolate, with an entire margin.
Montsechia is an extinct genus of aquatic plants containing the species Montsechia vidalii, described from Spain.M. vidalii lived about 130 million years ago, during the Barremian age, and appears to be the earliest known flowering plant macrofossil.
Red Cardinal Flower, Red Lobelia, Cardinal Lobelia, Slinkweed, Cardinal Flower, Scarlet Lobelia, Great Lobelia, or Indian Tobacco Lycopus americanus: Water Horehound Maianthemum racemosum: Treacleberry or Feathery False Lily of the Valley Micranthes micranthidifolia: Lettuceleaf Saxifrag, Branch Lettuce, or Brook Lettuce Mitchella repens
Scientists studying fossils found in Spain say they may have found the world's 'first flower.' Kind of. Researchers were studying fossils of a freshwater plant species known as Montsechia vidalii ...
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The fossil history of flowering plants records the development of flowers and other distinctive structures of the angiosperms, now the dominant group of plants on land.The history is controversial as flowering plants appear in great diversity in the Cretaceous, with scanty and debatable records before that, creating a puzzle for evolutionary biologists that Charles Darwin named an "abominable ...
The flower varies in shape from an open cup to a narrow hanging tube. In the species the flowers are mainly in shades of yellow through orange to red. The flowers are arranged in umbels (i.e. the flower-stalks or pedicels radiate from a single point); each umbel has a long stalk or peduncle. Several bracts subtend the umbels.